Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

THE RUNNYMEDE TRUST 

Runnymede is the leading independent think-tank on race equality and race relations in the UK. We generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement. Runnymede is working to build a Britain in which all citizens feel valued, enjoy equal opportunities, lead fulfilling lives, and share a common sense of belonging.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end but this has been generated by an income surplus in the latest year and spending has been increasing rapidly
Established: 27 years

www.runnymedetrust.org

info@runnymedetrust.org

02073779222

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£1,935£1,087£848£30£2,351£1,49216.5200
31/12/21£1,145£773£372£0£1,503£1,10717.2140
31/12/20£1,342£449£893£0£1,131£94525.380
31/12/19£484£402£82n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£309£290£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£329£262£67£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£288£267£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15*£156£169£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14*£408£352£56£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£482£563£-81£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£689£649£40£8£96£110.2130
31/12/11£694£653£41£11£59£250.5150
31/12/10*£738£816£-78£5£18£-8-0.1170
31/12/09£474£576£-102£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08*£648£641£7£16£198£150.3120
31/12/07£591£534£57£15£179£300.7120
31/12/06£490£419£71£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£461£419£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£304£305£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 63%
Reserves/Spending: 16.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 25 months
Quick Ratio: 14
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£307,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£300,000
Trust for London£279,000
Esmee Fairbairn£262,000
Unbound Philanthropy£190,000
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust£22,025
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Voter ID readiness assessment
£7,225 04/04/2023
for a short research project which will seek to better understand whether local authorities are ready to meet their obligations under Voter ID requirements
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Stephen Lawrence 30 years on
£15,000 20/03/2023
Runnymede is the UK's leading independent race equality think tank. This grant supports their campaign, led by his family, for justice for Stephen Lawrence as 22 April 2023 marks the 30th anniversary ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Future Foundations UK
£20,000 20/03/2023
Future Foundations UK is a community of People of Colour working in philanthropy in the UK. This grant will support FFUK to grow and develop their membership offer through delivering wellbeing and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£12,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Policy work to improve race and migration outcomes in the UK
£12,000 18/01/2023
Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant contributes to core salaries to ....more
Trust for London - Runnymede Trust
£150,000 16/11/2022
This funding is to conduct research into how barriers to home ownership stifles economic growth for Black and minoritised communities in London.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£90,000 15/11/2022
For general support of a social policy research organization focused on race equality
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Runnymede Trust
£300,000 19/03/2022
Core costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
Trust for London - Runnymede Trust
£80,000 24/02/2021
The funding is for research that will: Conceptualises race and class in London through the prism of ‘gentrification’; Generates and influences housing and housing-related policy and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Runnymede Trust: core funding
£240,000 23/11/2020
Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant will contribute to core ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£180,000 21/10/2020
36
Towards Unrestricted core costs to challenge racial inequality.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£16,000 19/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 28/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Trust for London - Runnymede Trust
£49,000 26/02/2020
12
The funding is for a one-year research project to use data to improve understanding of housing, race and class in London. The research would be mainly quantitative in nature, but would also involve ....more
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Voter Participation of Ethnic Minorities at 2019 General Election
£14,800 14/11/2019
3
to run a research and voter participation project for BAME communities at the snap General Election
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£100,000 23/07/2019
36
For general support of a social policy research organization focused on race equality
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Core funding
£40,000 18/03/2019
24
The next phase of work with the FRE Collaboration, following a scoping phase on strategic communications (otherwise known as 'reframing')
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Race Equality Policy 2019/21
£90,000 20/10/2018
36
To provide evidence-based policy and advocacy work on race equality.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Future integration policy risks, challenges and opportunities scan
£5,000 16/10/2017
2
Think tank, Runnymede Trust, seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant will fund a brief policy-focused review on integration, supporting ....more
Trust for London - Runnymede Trust
£99,000 12/10/2017
24
The funding is to support the building on our previous work Runnymede will work with the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) to understand and improve public discussion and policy on race ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core funding
£150,000 25/09/2017
36
Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This core grant will contribute to the ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Runnymede Trust
£136,000 15/07/2017
36
Core Costs
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Race Equality Policy Year 2
£30,000 21/03/2017
12
To part-fund a full time policy officer to work both to Runnymede and Race on the Agenda (ROTA)
Spirit of 2012 - #SheBelieves
£15,000 01/03/2017
Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 - the project used sport, specifically basketball as a hook to engage girls in a series of workshops on objectification and body confidence.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£64,000 14/09/2016
24
Towards the salary of a policy officer.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Race Equality Policy
£30,000 04/04/2016
18
To part-fund a full time policy officer to work both to Runnymede and Race on the Agenda (ROTA)
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Ethnic minority attitudes to migration
£20,300 15/12/2014
Research project to explore the attitudes of ethnic minorities towards immigration
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Runnymede Trust
£20,000 12/05/2014
Towards an organisation that conducts research and delivers campaigns and programmes on racial and ethnic inequality.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Runnymede sustainability
£30,000 17/03/2014
Runnymede sustainability
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Manifesta
£78,200 04/09/2013
In MY Footsteps
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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-64
  • FARAH ELAHI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Senior Policy & Projects Officer
  • MAYA GOODFELLOW Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Phd Student And Freelance Writer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/07/1997, number: 1063609
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/07/1997, number: 03409935
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR15: 32 days late, AR14: 8 days late, AR10: 8 days late, AR08: 12 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE WAINWRIGHT TRUST on 12/01/2021
Main office

BK 207, Brickfields
37 Cremer St
London
E2 8HD

Objectives

THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE: 4.1.1 BY TEACHING, LECTURING OR OTHERWISE, STUDIES IN POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES, THE HUMANITIES AND OTHER SUBJECTS OR DISCIPLINES SUITABLE FOR EDUCATION; 4.1.2 RACIAL HARMONY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY: (A) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, NATIONALITY, ETHNICITY, RELIGION OR SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND; (B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WITH A VIEW TO ENHANCING RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIO ECONOMIC GROUPS; (C) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF AND TO FOSTER MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; (D) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING STUDY AND RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SOCIETY, AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH; AND (E) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT AMONGST THE PUBLIC IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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